What was your first computer?

My First Computer .. and I still use it .. But I don't program in it anymore

My first computer was an IBM PC with 256K RAM and 2 360K floppies bought in 1984 for around $2500. It was a real screamer with a 4.77Mhz 8-bit Intel 8088 CPU!

I no longer have my original IBM PC but do have 2 of them in my collection!

johnhoh said:

It was 1984 and I had been using DOS machines at work (IBM) for a couple years when IBM announced an employee purchase program for the PCjr at 70% off. I picked up an aftermarket 512k sidecar to get me to the industry maximum 640k of memory and was off to the races.



IBM PCjr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I bought 7 of the PCjrs during the employee firesale (none of them were for me). I modified the 128K sidecars that came with them to 512K to bring up the total RAM to 640K. The PCjr was kinda cool since it had advanced sound and graphics for the time but it had some severe limitations too.

I have 2 PCjrs in my collection.

AhmedbinHassan said:

Atari 2600.

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atari 2600 me aswell,blisters off the joystick cos of space invaders

I also had a learning computer when I was young and later had a Apple laptop for school work (on loan from school) which had a B/W Screen and the Battery lasted about a whole week.

A Radio Shack MC-10. Tiny little thing with 4 KB of RAM, a cassette interface, and a thermal printer. Hooked up to a regular old TV.

I didn't even care about computers at the time, but one night I started playing with it (doing a little programming), and then I suddenly became hooked.

I kind of miss it ... it would be neat if I still had it.

After that I graduated to a more capable machine, an Apple //e (which I still have).

Hi all

Haven't got the pics but here's a link

I had an EXIDY SORCERER with a "Massive" 32 KB RAM. (1978)

It Ran a CP/M type OS (pre-cursor of MS DOS) and had plug in modules for Basic and a Word Processor.

Great machine at the time - but a 128 KB (note not MB) Floppy disk system cost around 500 USD back then. CPU a ZILOG Z-80

Exidy Sorcerer computer

I also had the old BBC Micro based on a 6502 processor. This was a GREAT machine because you had to build it yourself -- I learned a lot from that old BBC Micro.

OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum


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jimbo

Apple Macintosh II

wiki article here Macintosh II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

still have mine stuffed away in my parents basement back in nashville, it's not as pretty as this one mine now has a yellowish brown tinge.

i also remember an old computer my grandfather had back then and the screen only showed green and black. not sure of the model of his though